I'm not gonna lie, the way that people always put Metroid 1 & 2 together, when talking about how they didn't age well and newcomers should better play the remakes, I always assumed they would be similar in that regard.
But after completing M1 for the first time (with a romhack for SNES that removed all the crazy lag and added an ingame map) and now having played M2 through NSO, I feel like Metroid 2 is actually a huge improvement over the first game.

I completely understood what people meant, when they say M1 didn't age well, the vanilla game lags almost all the time. For example as soon as there are too many enemies on screen, which happends constantly.
The lack of a map makes this game a nightmare to navigate, especially because the developers copy and pasted so many rooms over and over again. Which leads to some very strange places, where a layout was copied that originally had hidden blocks, which were hiding items, but after being copied now just have hidden blocks that lead to nothing.
The controls actually felt completely fine in my opinion, considering it was the first game and also on NES. Overall I had a pretty good experience with the romhack and I think I would've had a fine experience with the OG, if the game didn't lag all the time.

Now with M2, I assumed it was gonna have the same flaws as M1, but to my surprise it acutally fixed almost all of the problems, that made M1 so unplayable for me.
I don't remember the game even lagging once, which already made the experience so much better. The screen was smaller but I never felt like it was to close. The enemy design and platforming was obviously specifically made for the small screen size, so it never became an issue for me.
And the craziest one for me: You can actually navigate through the game, without the need of a map. Don't get me wrong, the lack of a map still makes the game a little worse, than it could've been if it had one, but they actually designed the world with unique locations and room layouts, that help you remember what each area is and don't confuse you as much as M1.
The controls also felt a little smoother, which is very nice. On top of that the setting and atmosphere were really good and I love the plot of the game so much. Especially when you think about, how the events of the game tie into future games.

Long story short, if you tried M1 like me and felt discouraged from trying out M2, I honestly really recommend still giving it a try. I had a really great time with the game and it has become one of my favorite Gameboy games.

Anyone know if/when Nintendo, best buy or Amazon getting pre-orders back in stock for Ravenous???

I had almost everything until I had to find the keys. I could Not find them and it was infuriating because I was looking everywhere

Hello fellow Metroid fans! I want to make a post to give a shout out to the mod team of this Metroid subreddit. I'm pretty new to this fandom but I have seen that the mod team always act when someone has a bad behavior toward someone else and they know how to make a distinction between someone who disagree politely with someone and just people who want to be mean. And they are very respectful about the artists work, my last post about fan arts of Nora/Samus was deleted because one of the artist I shared the work had previously sent a DM to the mod team asking not to have their work share here. The mod let me know that he loved Nora and the arts and took the time to explain the reasons why the post was deleted. I think it's very great to have a mod team be respectful of artists wishes and to be very fair when it come to moderating a subreddit. So here you go, I made this little picture for them and wanted to write this message.

A few weeks ago I posted a post talking about how amazing Super Metroid was.

During these weeks, I have been playing all the 2D games of the Metroid saga in chronological order while waiting for Metroid Ravenous. I finished Metroid Fusion and started again with Metroid Dread (I had already played it out at the time). Having officially played every 2D game in the series, I can say that Metroid Dread is undoubtedly the best game of all (without underestimating how amazing Super Metroid and Fusion are). But I think the evolution of the saga has peaked with this latest installment. I'm getting up early 1h before my time to get up to go to work in order to get a place to play hahahaha

OPA. Eu amo Metroid, talvez a minha franquia de games favorita.

Já tinha jogado o Zero Mission, o Return of Samus (o de GB e meu deus! O último boss é absurdamente demorado), joguei também Samus Return (3DS, o meu favorito) e agora estou zerando Super Metroid.

Eu já tinha jogado o Super, mas foi um trauma imenso, tanto que eu ficava com medo de jogar o Super.

Aí eu fiquei nessa de não jogar o Super até que eu experimentei o Metroid de NES.

Que jogo bom e ruim ao mesmo tempo.

Aí eu pensei "Uhm, Super Metroid não me parece tão mal depois disso".

Então eu decide dar uma chance e...

Eu amei esse jogo.

As mecânicas eram incríveis, como o Wall Jump, que foi um pesadelo para mim e o Speed Boost, que tem de aparecer mais na franquia.

As formas para pegar os itens são muitos criativos. Tem uns que se você não ver um vídeo não vais descobrir.

Os chefes eram mais complexos do que Zero Mission e tinham muitos chefes ainda.

Para mim esse SERIA o meu jogo favorito só que eu cheguei na parte que me fez desistir do jogo antigamente que era Maridia.

A PARTE QUE ME FEZ DESISTIR DO JOGO

Ah Maridia... Vai tomar no cu área ruim.

Cara, primeira reclamação, área maldita! Meu Deus! Mesmo com a Gravity Suit é difícil!

A navegação nesse lugar é confusa.

O local é bem fechado. Pensa, você pegou o mapa de toda a área. Você vê um lado do mapa que você não tem acesso. Você vê no mapa um possível local para entrar. Você via e... Não.

Ok, é um metroidvania mas me estressou um pouco.

Mas o que me deu mais raiva é o upgrade da Morp Ball. Vou esplicar.

Para você poder progredir ou você tem de ter o upgrade da bola ou usar algo que nunca funcionou direito em Metroid, pular e trasformar em Morp Ball.

Ok. Você não sabe dessa técnica então você vai e pesquisa na internet como conseguir esse upgrade. Aí para você pegar esse upgrade tens de fazer um pulo muito difícil que é facilitado pelo Space Jump. Mas adivinha?! O Space Jump é adiquirido depois de matar um chefe que fica depois daquele lugar para usar a Morp Ball.

Cara, eu quase chorei de raiva.

Aí tinha um outro problema que aí era culpa do emulador que era o save state. Eu usava para salvar o meu progresso se estivesse longe um um lugar de salvar ou se estivesse num boss que é muito longe do lugar de salvar ou em desafios de plataformas muito difíceis.

Mas ele corrompeu os saves todos o que me fez voltar bem no início de Maridia!

Eu gosto desse jogo, seria até meu favorito se não fosse a confusão que é Maridia.

Bom, é isso. Que quiserem dar dica podem dar

SOLVED.

I got into Crateria via bombjumps and then discovered the Chozo ruins, but now I've fallen into this room with seemingly no escape. Shooting the walls lead to a secret passage on the left, but it's seemingly one-way as none of the other blocks are bombable and a crumble block prevents me from going further. There doesn't seem to be any way of interacting with the statue. I even tried bomb jumping, but from what I can tell the ceiling consists entirely of Crumble Blocks.

Was it just something the devs decided?

I think it's pretty cool but it's not often characters have things like moles or freckles unless it's specifically for a specific story beat it characacher

Because its the principle of it. Beneath all the isolation, badassery, death defying missions, struggle, constant empowerment and depowerment, Metroid has ALWAYS been pure sci-fantasy pulp fiction under the hood, and Dread and Ravenous have just brought it to the surface. Our girl's feasting GOOD now, and I'm willing to bet that after the game drops there'll be an explosion of new Metroid fanfics all across the internet

Alguien lo tendra?

Lo voy a jugar en Psvita

this came with my new 2ds xl. its an AR card of samus. never tried it out…looks like its the varia suit from smash 3d.

Newer fan here. I played most of the 2D games and have been playing through the Prime series since the beginning of this month. I’m curious to see how everyone ranks Prime 1-4 + Hunters. So far, my ranking is:
1. Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (GameCube)
2. Metroid Prime Remastered (Switch)
3. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (PrimeHack, just started yesterday)

Samus has to go back to Sol Valley to save her friends and finish Sylux, another Metroid Prime is on the planet (but you can beat it whenever you want), there's new sectors of old areas, new characters to tag along, the color pallette is something different and fresh, you can unlock suits from previous Metroid games from an optional zone, new sky islands and underground areas.

Having a casual play through MP4 when this happens. Without a doubt, it's the most hilarious thing Duke says. I know it's situational, but two hours after capturing this clip, I'm still howling!!

Just played metroid fusion (on 3ds) after seeing all the ravenous hype and hearing everyone say fusion was good. I really liked alot of it but also wanted to kill myself for like a third of my time playing it. First off the bosses are dog shit, like the first few are fine but then they throw one that isn't hurt by missiles without any indication even though every other boss is only hurt by missiles, and then there's that shit boss with two vacuums in the floor that made me want to explode, and then there was nightmare which I don't even want to talk about. Also the game designer who thought killer orbs at the end of a boss fight was a fun addition deserves jail time. Half of my deaths in boss fights were just to those stupid fucking orbs. Another thing in the game is it felt like it really didn't want you to backtrack like ever. every time I got a new ability I would go back to all the sectors just to find like 1 thing and it felt very pointless. so I just decided to wait until I unlocked whatever broke those weird pink spin symbol blocks but as soon as I got it the game just locked me into the ending and I couldn't do shit.

Other than those few things though the game was great. Loved exploring the map and finding hidden rooms, the games art is genuinely beautiful, and I enjoyed the story. I really loved the parts where the x samus appeared bc those moments were always so cool. Also the timed sections were really fun to play. My favourite area of the game would prob either be the giant room with a bunch of roots growing from it or that dark area with the freeze thingies. The Ridley fakeout was also really good.

I ended the game with 11 hours and 61% items which im pretty sure is like really bad. Might go back and try to get the rest of the items but have zero clue how to do some of the stuff I saw (is there some sort of way to break speed blocks without a run up? Or like in the ceiling? Idk if I missed smth about that)

I'd give the game like a solid 8/10 and once again the art is so fucking good like they really know their shit like so many boss sprites were downright gorgeous even though they suck to play.

Gonna play samus returns now and hope it's bosses don't make me suicidal